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2016-05-27

NATO Buildup on Russia’s Borders: Mobilization for War or Just Business? NATO Buildup on Russia’s Borders: Mobilization for War or Just Business?

Vatic Note: Told ya, Putin was in on it. The bankers need another World War to replenish their deminishing money supply brought about by their fiat currency system. This is not news to most of us. This is an excellent write up and makes perfect sense.

Did you know that Putin has 30 billion dollars stashed somewhere that he pulls out whenever he needs it? I just found out because Obama was going after it to deprive Putin of such flexibility. Is there no one who is not wrapped up in the international khazar bankers agenda? you read and decide.

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[ Editor’s Note:
Stephen Cohen just rips any justification for NATO’s expansion to the
Russian border as a fraud on the scale of the Iran nuclear hoax, with
that analogy being mine.

I am not taking liberty on that, as I had
editorialized during the Iran nuclear talks that one of Obama’s
motivations was to cool things down in the Gulf to shift money, focus
and US forward deployment on Russia and China.

Is that a new Cold War? Well, to borrow a phrase from the infamous US geopolitical sage herself, Sarah Palin, “You betcha!”

I
still cringe every time I hear her asked anything about world events,
knowing with almost certainty that any randomly selected citizen could
contribute more than she.

Unfortunately, Cohen confirms one of my
greatest fears, that the political class is onboard the NATO advance, as
if it were some sort of “Let’s make America great again by playing
brinkmanship with Russia”.

It is an exercise of make-believe
leadership, and a sterling example of the leadership crisis we face
almost everywhere we look; and exceptions are rare, which is why Putin
is hated by many… Jim W. Dean ]

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This is not how to win friends and influence people

– First published … May 26, 2016 –

The large-scale US-NATO amassing of military forces on
Russia’s Western borders, NATO’s so-called “Eastern Front,” is
unprecedented and creates the impression of actual war preparations,
according to Professor Stephen F. Cohen; however it might also be driven
by the economics of the US military industrial complexes.

Stephen Cohen

The extraordinary US-NATO build-up of military forces — on land, sea,
and air — on and very near Russia’s borders, or the opening of “NATO’s
Eastern Front”, as Professor of Russian studies at Princeton University
and New York University Stephen F. Cohen refers to it, had no precedent
during the preceding 40-years of Cold War.

“This military buildup
on Russia’s Western frontiers is absolutely unprecedented. There has
never been such an amassing of hostile military force on Russia’s
Western frontiers since June 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union
and that’s the way the Russians see it,” Stephen F. Cohen said in his
recent interview with John Batchelor on The John Batchelor Show radio
news magazine.

Such a massive mobilization creates an impression of preparation to actual war, the professor suggested.

“What NATO is mobilizing there is
a lot more than a couple of divisions here and a couple of divisions
there, some armor here and some there,” he explained.

“We need to understand that tens
of thousands of western troops will be parked now permanently, they may
say that they are rotating, but they are there permanently on Russia’s
borders. Along with nuclear-ready missiles, along with a lot of tanks
and, above all, in Russia’s eyes, the missile defense installation,” he
added.

This is so serious, so fraught with the possibility of war, he said,
adding that this NATO buildup has gone beyond the Cold War, and that
Russia is only reacting in response.

This, the professor explained, is already beyond the Cold War, where
nobody dies, this is already a “pre-war” stage, and what we are
witnessing is a mobilization to war.

The world has not witnessed a development like this, “certainly not
in any proximity,” since the Cuban crisis with the Soviet Union
during the Cold War, Stephen F. Cohen explained.

‘What Aggression by Putin Warranted this New Escalation?’

When military experts ask for the reasons behind such a huge assembly
of forces, they hear one and the same answer, one which is being echoed
at the highest levels. And the person who formulated the plan is the US
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter.

“When asked to explain why there
is this massive NATO mobilization on Russia’s western frontiers, he said
because of “Putin’s aggression. That was the only answer,” the
professor says.

“Putin’s “aggression”! What “aggression” by Putin warranted this new escalation?” he questions.

“The aggression we attributed
to Putin was more than two years ago, when he “annexed” Crimea and when
he began supporting the rebels in Ukraine. But so far as I know he
hasn’t invaded or menaced any country since then,” he replied.

There is this myth, Cohen says, that Putin is somehow menacing “these little Baltic States” – Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia.

But it isn’t true, he replies. This is just warmongering propaganda that has no evidence to support it.

“So, what Putin did 2.5 year ago,
if that was an aggression, why is that we are now mobilizing in a
completely different location – in the Baltic area?” he therefore
questions.

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No Mainstream Opposition

Professor Cohen also acknowledged that as these
“potentially fateful” events are occurring, there is no mainstream
opposition to what the US and NATO are doing or even critical questions
to be asked.

“Our political class, all
across the spectrum is down with this, there is no opposition. When
there is no opposition, where will they stop? And increasingly it looks
like it may not stop there, but it is going to end in war with Russia,”
he suggested.

‘The West Calls It Aggression’

The US and NATO are escalating on Russia’s borders in a way that
never happened during the Cold War, but, and it is true, Russia is
escalating back, he said.
It is also building up militarily on its side.

“We call that aggression. But I would argue that they are reacting!!” Professor Cohen said.

“I think that any reasonable
person would say that any Russian leader in the Kremlin would have
to react to what NATO is doing on its borders. Or he would be removed,”
he suggested.

And many high-ranking Russian voices, he added, are already saying
that Putin is not doing enough, he is not aggressive enough to take the
initiative.
‘How Much of That is a Sincere Anxiety About our Security?’
Is Russia really a threat? The professor wondered. How much of this is just ideology? he added.

“Is it just the Cold War ideology that never died? The Cold War wasn’t about communism, it was about Russia,” he stated.

‘And Then There is an Elephant in the Room, and That’s the Money’
When a country joins NATO, the professor explained, it is militarily has to be brought up to NATO’s standards.

Most of the NATO equipment is US-made. The new member states become a
consumer for the American defense industries, which have done very well
as a result of NATO expansion.

Some people have already suggested that this NATO expansion has been
about money the whole time — it has been driven by the American
military industrial complex. Is there a better way to build up your
revenue than to capture a market and make it obligatory to purchase only
one product.
Lots of countries make military equipment, Cohen explained. There is
some NATO equipment that is not American-made. But it is all derived
from American designs.

It is an enormous market, he added.

“So, when you look at the
buildup, you look at the money, and they [US, NATO] are quadrupling
expenditure on Russia’s frontier alone,” he acknowledged.

And this is not the only place where NATO is active. It is on the
move again in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. Again, they are
talking about Moldova and it involves Romani where they built this
missile defense system.

“I don’t want to say that all the
decisions made regarding Russia militarily are driven by the
profitability of the military industrial complex I don’t know that to be
true, but what I know to be true is that billions and billions and
eventually trillions of dollars are going to be profited from this
expansion of NATO and it continues to expand and in particularly now
with the buildup on Russia’s borders,” the professor concluded.

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